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  • Quod in praxi minime fortunatus esset, medicinam reliquit, et ordinibus initiatus in Theologia postmodum scripsit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ne tribus prioribus noctibus rem haberet cum ea. ut esset in pecoribus fortunatus, ab uxore morae impatiente, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • O fortunatus nimium agricola, who has one horse, and that a good one, in the middle of a hunting country!

    Hunting Sketches 2004

  • Et miser sum et fortunatus, si vos vera dicitis; eo miser sum quia male illi feci, si gnatust meus. eheu, quom ego plus minusve feci quam me aequom fuit. quod male feci crucior; modo si infectum fieri possiet. sed eccum incedit huc ornatus haud ex suis virtutibus.

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

  • He made him, besides all this, a rich man, and a man who desired to be no richer—“O fortunatus nimium, et bona qui sua novit!

    Of Agriculture 1909

  • Quanti hoc integer, ut uidebaris tibi fortunatus, emisses!

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • On such occasions he would sit awaiting her with beating heart, juvenis fortunatus nimium, on the narrow veranda of the hotel, regardless of the domed white pile of

    The Fortunate Youth William John Locke 1896

  • O fortunatus nimium agricola, who has one horse, and that a good one, in the middle of a hunting country!

    Hunting Sketches Anthony Trollope 1848

  • A young man in the congregation, that slept at sermon, was killed by a fall out of the window, but raised to life again; his name signifies one that had good fortune -- Eutychus, bene fortunatus; and he answered his name.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

  • siue oculis umquam restituere meis: fortunatus agam uotoque beatior omni

    Rome 1912

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